Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerNets point guard Deron Williams is expected to return to the U.S. from Turkey on Thursday. If he comes to New Jersey and wants to work out at the Nets' practice facility, he'll be able to.

The Nets' practice facility will be open and available to any NBA players — Nets or otherwise — who want to use it beginning Thursday. The players won't be allowed to have contact with the team's coaches, and only a training staff person and one public relations employee (to assist with any media needs) will be allowed to be in the gym while the player(s) are working out.

What players will be showing up to the PNY Center on Thursday? At this point, no one knows. Deron Williams, who played in Turkey during the lockout, is expected to arrive in the U.S. Thursday, but it is unknown whether he will swing by the facility (odds are, he won't) on his first day back in the country. Rookie Jordan Williams is expected to be back in the U.S. tonight, after going to Poland to play during the lockout, but whether he'll make it to Jersey Thursday is also unknown. Rookie MarShon Brooks is taking classes up at Providence College, and expected to return to New Jersey on Friday.

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Tyson Chandler, the free agent center who helped the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA title last spring, is "interested'' in the Nets, according to someone familiar with his thinking. The person did not wish to be identified because he is not authorized to speak for Chandler.

Chandler, and the Denver Nuggets' Nene, are perhaps the Nets' two biggest targets in free agency, as GM Billy King said the team will be targeting big men as its No. 1 priority. Currently, Jordan Williams — who isn't even signed — is the only power forward on the roster. The team might look to bring back Kris Humphries depending on how it goes with their other targets.

Lower on the priority list is a small forward, and Thaddeus Young, a restricted free agent from Philadelphia, is believed to be on King's wish list. King did admit today he is interested in some restricted free agents, in addition to unrestricted free agents. But with restricted free agents, teams will have three days to match an offer sheet submitted by a rival team interested in signing that player. And with an abbreviated free agency period — at the moment, the plan is for free agency to begin Dec. 9, the same day day that training camps are expected to open — it might be risky for a team to sign a player to an offer sheet and have to wait three days to learn whether it will get him or not.

Players are probably going to be signing left and right in the first hours of free agency, so If the Nets were to sign a restricted free agent, and the player's original team matched the offer, the three-day matching period may end up costing the Nets a shot at an alternative free agent.